Vehicle wheel



R. RIEHL VEHICLE WHEEL June 28 1927.

Filed March 26, 1926 [N E/\/ TOE Faber/ 6126/.

Patented June 28, 1927. P g l UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

ROBERT 38112311., 0] ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

VEHICLE WHEEL.

Application fled Iarch 26, 1928. Serial Io. 97,650.

My invention relates to vehicle wheels, with a dirt, dust, and waterproof outer .asand specifically to auto vehicle wheels, ining, which is com 'of a central porwhich the hub is resiliently mounted within tion 1,1 and a re-in member 2, firmly the rim of the wheel. held in place by means of bolts or rivets 00 The ob'ect of my invention is to produce 3, so that when the wheel is completely asa wheel fbr auto vehicles in whichthe hub sembled, no dirt or dust can enter its in-' is resiliently mounted within the rim of tenor.

wheel in such a way that the shock of the A rim 4 of suitable shape is rovided with road will be effectively dampened. a tire 5, and joined to a plurality of hollow Another object of my invention is to prohousings 6, which said hollow housings are vide a spring wheel that can be cheaply adapted to reciprocate with an additional constructed and that is durable and etfec hollow housing ,which is composed of two tive. circularplates securely bolted or riveted to Other ob'ects and advantages of my inthe spokes 8, at a point in close proximity .vention wil be obvious from the descripto the hub 9, which is integral with the duce a vehicle wheel in which the hub 0 tion, claim and drawings, in which: spokes 8.

Fig. 1 is a side view of the wheel. At a suitable predetermined distance ig. 2 is a section along the line 2--2 in from the ends of the spokes a ball raceway ifi. 1, 10 is provided, which may be bolted or riv- 75 ig."3 is a sectional view of a. rtion eted' to the spoke. A plurality of balls 11 of the wheel taken in the median p ane of are provided and sed between the racethe same. way 10 and a suitab e washer 12, which in Fig. 4 is a cross-section of Fig. 3 along turn rests upon the helical spring 13. the line 44. The purpose of the balls 11 is to reduce so This my present invention is an improvethe friction and permit a limited angular ment upon my invention as described in movement of the spokes 8 about the hub and United States Patent- No. 1,003,123, issued within the s rings 13,-thus a dual move- Se t. 12, 1911. ment of the ub is provided for.

any attempts have been made to garo- One of the movements rmits a slight the rotative movement about t e axle, and the wheel is resiliently supported within the other permits a limited vertical motion b rim, as it is well known that heavily laden means of the resiliency of the helical trucks, having wheels provided witheither springs, thereby dampening and relieving steel or solid rubber tires, transmit the jar the axles of any shockor' jar that might be and shockcof the road to the axles of the exerted against the pe 'phery of the wheel, truck, causing them to crystallize and break. either in a horizontal or vertical plane, so

0 overcome these defects, various atthat under all circumstances and conditions, tempts have been made to interpose a shockthe axle will not be subjected to jar and absorbing medium between the axle and the vibration, which is such a fruitful source 95 rim of t e wheel. of crystallization and breaking of axles.

In some cases, solid rubber inserts have My construction further complements and been used with the result that while sue supplements the action and effect of the cessful for a time, the rubber soon loses its normalvehicle r' elasticity with wear and age and, therefore, It is evident at if the spokes were limuires frequent renewal, at lar expense. ited only to a vertical movement, when the or attempts have been mad e in which wheel was subjected to violent: shock in a various and kinds of springs have horizontal plane, as whenb n; a truck been la 4 between the hub and rim of against a curb, the shock woul transthe w eel. In some cases the type of sp l ferred directly to the axle, which would tend used has been such that the are y to-cause ittocrystallize. taetmg with our and'other Ha fully described my invention, obstacles; and, besides, they gather dirt, what I Eaim as new and useful and desire dust and mud from the r to secure b Letters Patent is:-

To overcome these objections, I have de- A vehi e wheel of the class described,

flifiljled a wheel which when completed, as cogsfmmg an outer rim providedfwith in-= c m cated' in Fig. 1, is completely enclosed w y projecting hollow holmings, oonfirst-mentioned housin disposed spokes connected to said hub and.

of sufiicient length to protrude through the said radially disposed housing into the said projecting inwardliy from said rim, bal raceways rmly afxed to said spokes, balls in said raceways adapted to be held in said raceways by a suitable washer, slidably surrounding said spokes, helical compression springs surfixed my signature this 30th rounding said kes, against said was or and abutting against said rim, vidin stituting the aforesaid radially disposed housing, and rigidly joined to said hub, rigidly joined to and dirt, as set specifications. I

In witness whereof Ihave hereunto afary, 1926. v

v ROBERT RIEHL.

one end abutt'm the opposite en 35.v a hollow hub pro an axle bearing, enclosing sides eonrevent the ingress of dust 20 orth in the drawings and day of Janu- 

